Labour Industrial Relations category: 668 books
State, Labor, and the Transition to a Market Economy
Egypt, Poland, Mexico, and the Czech Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
In response to mounting debt crises and macroeconomic instability in the 1980s, many countries in the developing world adopted neoliberal policies promoting the unfettered play of market forces and deregulation of the economy and attempted large-scale structural adjustment, including the privatization...
Software, Infrastructure, Labor
A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2016
Infrastructure makes worlds. Software coordinates labor. Logistics governs movement. These pillars of contemporary capitalism correspond with the materiality of digital communication systems on a planetary scale. Ned Rossiter theorizes the force of logistical media to discern how subjectivity and...
The Jobless Future
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2010
High technology will destroy more jobs than it creates. This grim prediction was first published in the 1994 edition of The Jobless Future, an eerily accurate title that could have been written for today's dismal economic climate. Fully updated and with a new introduction by Stanley Aronowitz and William...
People Get Ready
The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Humanity is on the verge of its darkest hour—or its greatest moment
The consequences of the technological revolution are about to hit hard: unemployment will spike as new technologies replace labor in the manufacturing, service, and professional sectors of an economy that is already struggling....
Unions and the City
Negotiating Urban Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in major North American cities, even after years of decline. Labor continues to play a vital role in mobilizing urban residents, shaping urban conflict, and crafting the policies and regulations that are transforming our urban spaces....
Solidarity Divided
The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2008
The U.S. trade union movement finds itself today on a global battlefield filled with landmines and littered with the bodies of various social movements and struggles. Candid, incisive, and accessible, Solidarity Divided is a critical examination of labor's current crisis and a plan for a bold new...
An Injury to All
The Decline of American Unionism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Over the past decade American labor has faced a tidal wave of wage cuts, plant closures and broken strikes. In this first comprehensive history of the labor movement from Truman to Reagan, Kim Moody shows how the AFL-CIO’s conservative ideology of “business unionism” effectively disarmed unions...
by Cory Booker
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) shares the story of his father’s journey from poverty to middle-class prosperity, but says the bargain that helped his father and other workers achieve the American Dream is now broken. Sen. Booker reflects on the trends and practices contributing to stagnant wages in...
Racism in the Nation's Service
Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Between the 1880s and 1910s, thousands of African Americans passed civil service exams and became employed in the executive offices of the federal government. However, by 1920, promotions to well-paying federal jobs had nearly vanished for black workers. Eric S. Yellin argues that the Wilson administration's...
Organize!
Building from the Local for Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Penned by a diverse range of activists, academics, lawyers, artists, and researchers, this book weaves a rich and varied tapestry of strategies for bringing about change in an era of unprecedented economic, social, and ecological crisis. From community-based labor-organizing strategies among immigrant...
My Job
Real People at Work Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
MY JOB: Real People at Work Around the World, is a collection of vivid first-person accounts of real people in unique jobs, in the U.S. and the world. Never before has such a collection of stories been gathered. Building upon the legacy of Studs Terkel’s 1970s bestseller Working, MY JOB goes global...
Freedom to Harm
The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
How much economic freedom is a good thing? This book tells the story of how the business community, and the trade associations and think tanks that it created, launched three powerful assaults during the last quarter of the twentieth century on the federal regulatory system and the state civil justice...
The U.S. Labor Market
Questions and Challenges for Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Public policy is rightly concerned with fostering a vibrant labor market in which individuals can earn their own success, realize their potential, and enjoy the dignity that hard work provides. But public policy faces serious challenges in today’s labor market: low workforce participation and high...
Liberating Temporariness?
Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Liberating Temporariness? explores the complex ways in which temporariness is being institutionalized as a condition of life for a growing number of people worldwide. The collection emphasizes contemporary developments, but also provides historical context on nation-state membership as the fundamental...